Tag: Hebron

  • Palestinian Human Rights Worker Arrested at Qurtuba School in Hebron

    Tel Rumeida, Hebron. 11.9.07. At 7.25pm 11.9.07. ISM activists received a phone call saying there was a disturbance outside Qurtuba school. The school is in Tel Rumeida, Hebron opposite the Beit Hadassah settlement. A group of 10 settler girls were on the school pathway having a BBQ with a gas cylinder and a burner. A…

  • Attack on Child by Settlers

    Tel Rumeida, Hebron, 8.9.07 A local human rights worker reported that seven settler children and one adult attacked a Palestinian child in Hebron. The incident happened at 10 am outside Beit Hadassa settlement in Tel Rumeida, Hebron. The children were directed to beat up the victim by the adult and started punching and kicking him.…

  • Need for Activists in Susiya

    Last October, the IOF and settlers from the illegal Susiya settlement demolished 150 Dunums (1 Dunum=1/4 acre) of olive groves belonging to the Palestinians of Susiya. The timing was chosen with care: the trees were destroyed just before Susiya Palestinians could harvest their olives, following their Ramadan fasting. An economically starved area, the poverty-stricken Susiya…